Beckham County, OK - Obits: Frances Bowman, 1906
18 Sep 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BOWMAN, FRANCES
(22 Feb 1906, Thursday, Elk City Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. David T. Bowman passed away Tuesday.  Death was due to valvular
disease of the heart caused by rheumatism.  She has been a long sufferer,
and death came as a relief.  She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Royse, old settlers in this county.  All the old settlers well know the
Royse family and Mrs. Bowman.  Deceased was about 26 years old.  Many
friends will mourn her demise.  All sympathize with the husband, parents,
sisters and brothers.
Death was but a shadow between the spirit and clay.
(28 Feb 1906, Elk City Record, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Frances Royse Bowman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Royse and wife of D.
T. Bowman, died at the home of her brother, Lee Royse, seven miles
southwest of Elk City, February 20, 1906, after a painful illness of
several months.  Death came as a welcome release from the wasting pains of
rheumatism.
Mrs. Bowman was well known by a host of friends who both admired and loved
her for her many qualities both of mind and heart.  She was a teacher in
the first term of the public school in this city where she fulfilled the
expectations of her friends.
She was the first of ten children of these parents who grew to man and
womanhood, to depart this life.  On this account, and the devotion and
attachment with which the family tie was strengthened, made the
bereavement one of marked characteristics.
The funeral was from the home of her brother where she died, the brothers
and sisters of the deceased acting as pall bearers.  Songs, scripture
reading, a prayer and short address by Rev. T. D. Penn formed the simple
funeral service, after which a large procession of friends attended the
bereaved family to the city cemetery, where the body of Frances Royse
Bowman was tenderly laid to rest by loving hands, where her flesh shall
rest until the Lord calls it to the life again.